Sellersburg, IN
How exposed is Sellersburg to wildfire?
Sellersburg's 4,558 buildings earn a 15th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sellersburg at the 16th percentile, close to its 15th-percentile risk score.
Where Sellersburg's buildings actually sit
Only 30% of Sellersburg's 4,558 buildings carry Direct exposure and 5.9% carry Indirect; the remaining 64.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Sellersburg compares
Compare Sellersburg's two percentiles: 67th within Indiana, only 15th nationally — a gap of 53 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sellersburg ranks 26,909 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,741 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 316 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sellersburg
Sellersburg's low rating (15th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Sellersburg
Even with 64.2% of Sellersburg outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Sellersburg's 15th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sellersburg, see the exposure-zones guide.